<div dir="ltr"><br><div>I agree with spike. There must be a free market for medical R&D and people should be able to get obsenely rich by being successfull in this. My understanding is that most medical developments occur in the US. And there is a reason for that. We simply need to find a way to ration all this great stuff, and be Ok with only a few getting it at first, untill we can afford it for everyone. But until then....</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Nov 3, 2026 at 7:21 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><br>
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From: extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat<br>
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>...There is one clear cause for the ridiculously high expense of healthcare in the US: Already-rich people making making even more money from the suffering of poor people... Ben<br>
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Ben, our medicine costs a ton of money. It is developed and qualified at enormous expense. The companies that do that must make back their money somehow. Otherwise new medications and therapies will not be developed. Other countries can duplicate the medication for low cost and buy the machines invented here. Consequence: medicine is very expensive here. We do not have the option to socialize medicine here, even if we just stop developing new medicines, for the government cannot afford our medical system either. Its debt is too high to take on new expenses.<br>
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